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Dear editor,
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. Let’s lower the tax rate so businesses can create more jobs. Most Americans support tax reform because they want fairness. The current system is riddled with corrupt provisions and the tax treatment of upper income households is a good example. Sometimes rich people are hit with punitive tax rates. This is not good for them and it also hurts the rest of us by reducing investment and entrepreneurship. With a flat tax, by contrast, there are no special preferences or special penalties based on income. If Bill Gates has 100,000 times as much income as the average taxpayer, he’ll pay 100,000 times as much tax, not more, not less.
Economists like the flat tax since it would increase growth and job creation, while also making American more competitive. This is because a flat tax means a low tax rate. By replacing high tax rates with a low flat tax rate of 17 percent. The flat tax rate will encourage more productive behavior.
The first $36,000 of income is tax-free; no tax on social security, pensions, personal savings or capital gains. The elimination of complicated bureaucratic tax forms and taxes would be filed on a form the size of a postcard.
The Constitution was written by God fearing men and it will take a God fearing president to defend it. We have a few good men running in 2016; you pick the one that’s going to do something for his country instead of himself. Ben Carson isn’t doing it for himself; he’s doing it for his country. He knows our country is failing our children and us. He will put the goodness back in there and get the Godlessness out.
There are too many candidates in 2016. We have to make a good choice because we have a lot of good choices in the race. Our government has gotten so big. Let’s give it back to the people.
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Dear editor,
We are excited to welcome you all to Dodge County High School’s graduation. Our school’s graduation is a time-honored tradition and we are very proud of the ceremony that our school holds. We, the Dodge County High School Seniors, would like to ask the community-including parents, visitors and any special guests-to please allow each graduate the opportunity to receive his or her diploma in a dignified manner. We respectfully request that there be no catcalls, outbursts or yells from the crowd. A loud outburst for one graduate detracts from the next graduate. Also, we ask that all guests turn their cell phones off and remain seated and quite until the commencement exercises are complete. Movement detracts from our graduates and their recognitions. We seniors also request that our guests respect the formality of our special occasion and dress appropriately and accordingly. The seniors agree that anyone who violates these requests be asked to leave the stadium. We enlist your cooperation and support so that we will not have to ask you to leave the stadium. On behalf of the senior class and student council officers, we appreciate your help with these requests and are glad you have joined us in the Class of 2015’s time of honor.
Taylor Thomas, Senior Class President
Alana Bray, Senior Class Vice-President
Quimyre Rolland, Senior Class Secretary
Leanna Stuckey, Senior Class Parliamentarian
Lillie Douglas, Student Council President
Jacob Danforth, Student Council Treasurer
Leslie Guavara, Senior Class Treasurer
Lindsey Graham, Senior Projects Committee

Porshia Johnson, 22, and her boyfriend Travis Jordan, 21, have been arrested in the beating death of Johnson’s son, two year-old Aerick McManus. Aerick died May 14 after Treutlen County 911 received a call around 9:45 a.m. regarding an unresponsive child on Barwick Avenue in Soperton.

The Soperton Police Department and the Treutlen County Sheriff’s Office immediately began working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to determine what led to Aerick’s death. On May 16, an autopsy was performed on Aerick’s body at the GBI Crime Lab in Decatur. It was determined that the manner of death was homicide with the cause of death being blunt force trauma to the abdomen.

Johnson and Jordan were arrested on May 17 and transported to the Treutlen County Jail where they remain without bond. Johnson was charged with Felony Murder and Cruelty to Children. Jordan was charged with Felony Murder, Malice Murder, Cruelty to Children, and Aggravated Assault.

Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Soperton Police Department at 912/529-4221 or the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at 478/374-6988.

On Friday, May 29, more than 200 members of Dodge County High School’s Class of 2015 will celebrate personal and academic achievements by walking across the stage at Memorial Stadium and receiving diplomas.

The graduating class of Dodge County High School (DCHS) includes 206 students, 35 earning the title of Honor Graduate and being awarded a gold stole. These students, over the course of their four years in high school, have taken two units of the same foreign language, a half unit of computer applications, a half unit of speech and have earned a cumulative academic average of 94. Additionally, students who do not have a 94 average but have maintained a 90 average and have scored 1,185 or higher on the verbal and math sections on the SAT or 26 or better on the ACT, will also have the distinction of graduating with honors.

Receiving additional academic honors with distinction will be the class’s top four students. Gracie Snyder will receive the first honor of valedictorian, and Griffin Law will receive the second honor as the class salutatorian. Third honor will be awarded to Taylor Thomas, and fourth honor will be awarded to Tyndal Mitchell.

“We at Dodge County High School are very proud of the graduating class of 2015,” says DCHS Principal Dr. Susan Long. “We have seen them grow from ninth graders into young men and women and we are assured that they will make a positive impact in the world wherever their futures lead them.”[Full Story »]

NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, Dodge COUN­TY
THIS IS AN AT­TEMPT TO COL­LECT A DEBT.
ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by DA­VID BROC GID­DENS to FIRST BANK MORT­GAGE, A DI­VI­SION OF FIRST BANK OF GEOR­GIA dat­ed 11/07/12, record­ed in Deed Book 721, Page 24, Dodge, Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, as last trans­ferred to GEOR­GIA HOUS­ING AND FINANCE AU­THOR­I­TY by as­sign­ment record­ed in Deed Book 724, Page 234, Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of $40,979.00, with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash or cer­ti­fied check only be­fore the court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia with­in the le­gal hours of sale on 06/02/15, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty: ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND SITU­ATE, LY­ING AND BE­ING A PART OF THE ORIGI­NAL LOT OF LAND NUMBER 47 IN THE 14TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND BE­ING LOTS 1 AND 2 OF BLOCK “B” OF A SUB­DI­VI­SION KNOWN AS ROSE­WOOD HEIGHTS SUB­DI­VI­SION AC­CORD­ING TO A PLAT THERE­OF RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN DEED BOOK 7, PAGE 277, MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: BE­GIN­NING AT A POINT OF IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE EAST­ER­LY SIDE OF THE MI­LAN-CHAUN­CEY HIGH­WAY WITH THE NORTH­ER­LY SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE AND RUN­NING THENCE ALONG SAID SIDE OF THE MI­LAN- CHAUN­CEY HIGH­WAY IN A DI­REC­TION OF NORTH 17 DE­GREES WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO A STAKE CORN­ER; THENCE RUN­NING A DI­REC­TION OF NORTH 73 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO A STAKE CORN­ER; THENCE RUN­NING IN A DI­REC­TION OF SOUTH 17 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO THE NORTH­ER­LY SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE; THENCE RUN­NING IN A DI­REC­TION OF SOUTH 73 DE­GREES WEST ALONG SAID SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING AND BE­ING ONE ACRE, MORE OR LESS. SAID LANDS ARE THE SAME DE­SCRIBED IN AND CON­VEYED BY THAT CER­TAIN DEED FROM HEN­RY C. CO­LE­MAN TO FRANK GROVES DATES SEP­TEM­BER 4, 1968, AS WILL BE FOUND RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 112, PAGE 366, DODGE COUN­TY RECORDS.
AD­DRESS: 11 CYNTHIA STREET MI­LAN, GA 31060 MAP/PAR­CEL #042C-007
The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of, among oth­er pos­si­ble ev­ents of de­fault, fai­lure to pay the in­debt­ed­ness as and when due and in the man­ner pro­vid­ed in the Note and Se­cur­i­ty Deed. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, this sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fees hav­ing been given).
STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION serv­ic­es the above ref­er­enced loan on be­half of the cur­rent own­er of the loan. STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION can be con­tact­ed at 404-679-4908 or by writ­ing to P.O. Box 133079 Atlan­ta, GA 30333, to dis­cuss pos­si­ble al­ter­na­tives to fore­clo­sure. The ent­i­ty that has full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all terms of the mort­gage with
the debtor is: STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION. Please un­der­stand that the se­cured credi­tor is not re­quired by law to ne­go­tiate, amend, or mod­i­fy the terms of the mort­gage in­stru­ment. Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is DA­VID BROC GID­DENS or a ten­ant or ten­ants and said prop­er­ty is more com­mon­ly known as 11 CYNTHIA STREET, MI­LAN, GA 31060.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U.S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
RCO LE­GAL, P.S.
1587 North­east Ex­press­way
Atlan­ta, GA 30329
770-234-9181
www.rco­le­gal.com
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IN THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT of DODGE COUN­TY
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: MAT­THEW WYATT SPI­VEY, a minor child
DA­VID JONES, PE­TI­TION­ER
CIVIL AC­TION FILE NUMBER: 15V-108
NO­TICE FOR PUB­LI­CA­TION
TO: MAT­THEW S. SPI­VEY
You are here­by no­ti­fied that on the 4th day of May, 2015, DA­VID JONES, filed a pe­ti­tion in the Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty to seek adop­tion of MAT­THEW WYATT SPI­VEY, born on xx-xx-2002.
You are here­by com­mand­ed to file any ob­jec­tion to said adop­tion, in writ­ing, on or be­fore June 29th, 2015, and to show cause be­fore the pre­sid­ing JUDGE in Cham­ber of Dodge Su­pe­ri­or Court at 9 o’clock a.m. on the 29th day of June, 2015, in the Court­house in East­man, Dodge Coun­ty Geor­gia, why the adop­tion pro­ceed­ing filed on be­half of the PE­TI­TION­ER should not be grant­ed with­out the writ­ten cons­ent of the FA­THER of said MINOR CHILD.
WIT­NESS, The Hon­or­able Judge of said Court, this the 4th day of May, 2105.
RHETT WALK­ER
Clerk, Dodge Su­pe­ri­or Court
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The weather was perfect on Saturday, May 16, as the Eastman-Dodge Kiwanis Club held their 23rd annual Kiwanis Golf Tournament. The tournament was held at the Dodge County Golf Course in Eastman.
Nineteen teams enjoyed the friendly competition, fellowship and the chance to win money prizes and bragging rights on that day.
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IN THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT of DODGE COUN­TY
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: MAT­THEW WYATT SPI­VEY, a minor child
DA­VID JONES, PE­TI­TION­ER
CIVIL AC­TION FILE NUMBER: 15V-108
NO­TICE FOR PUB­LI­CA­TION
TO: MAT­THEW S. SPI­VEY
You are here­by no­ti­fied that on the 4th day of May, 2015, DA­VID JONES, filed a pe­ti­tion in the Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty to seek adop­tion of MAT­THEW WYATT SPI­VEY, born on xx-xx-2002.
You are here­by com­mand­ed to file any ob­jec­tion to said adop­tion, in writ­ing, on or be­fore June 29th, 2015, and to show cause be­fore the pre­sid­ing JUDGE in Cham­ber of Dodge Su­pe­ri­or Court at 9 o’clock a.m. on the 29th day of June, 2015, in the Court­house in East­man, Dodge Coun­ty Geor­gia, why the adop­tion pro­ceed­ing filed on be­half of the PE­TI­TION­ER should not be grant­ed with­out the writ­ten cons­ent of the FA­THER of said MINOR CHILD.
WIT­NESS, The Hon­or­able Judge of said Court, this the 4th day of May, 2105.
RHETT WALK­ER
Clerk, Dodge Su­pe­ri­or Court
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NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, Dodge COUN­TY
THIS IS AN AT­TEMPT TO COL­LECT A DEBT. ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by DA­VID BROC GID­DENS to FIRST BANK MORT­GAGE, A DI­VI­SION OF FIRST BANK OF GEOR­GIA dat­ed 11/07/12, record­ed in Deed Book 721, Page 24, Dodge, Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, as last trans­ferred to GEOR­GIA HOUS­ING AND FINANCE AU­THOR­I­TY by as­sign­ment record­ed in Deed Book 724, Page 234, Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of $40,979.00, with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash or cer­ti­fied check only be­fore the court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia with­in the le­gal hours of sale on 06/02/15, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND SITU­ATE, LY­ING AND BE­ING A PART OF THE ORIGI­NAL LOT OF LAND NUMBER 47
IN THE 14TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND BE­ING LOTS 1 AND 2 OF BLOCK “B” OF A SUB­DI­VI­SION KNOWN AS ROSE­WOOD HEIGHTS SUB­DI­VI­SION AC­CORD­ING TO A PLAT THERE­OF RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN DEED BOOK 7, PAGE 277, MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: BE­GIN­NING AT A POINT OF IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE EAST­ER­LY SIDE OF THE MI­LAN-CHAUN­CEY HIGH­WAY WITH THE NORTH­ER­LY SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE AND RUN­NING THENCE ALONG SAID SIDE OF THE MI­LAN- CHAUN­CEY HIGH­WAY IN A DI­REC­TION OF NORTH 17 DE­GREES WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO A STAKE CORN­ER; THENCE RUN­NING A DI­REC­TION OF NORTH 73 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO A STAKE CORN­ER; THENCE RUN­NING IN A DI­REC­TION OF SOUTH 17 DE­GREES EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 210 FEET TO THE NORTH­ER­LY SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE; THENCE RUN­NING IN A DI­REC­TION OF SOUTH 73 DE­GREES WEST ALONG SAID SIDE OF CYNTHIA DRIVE TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING AND BE­ING ONE ACRE, MORE OR LESS. SAID LANDS ARE THE SAME DE­SCRIBED IN AND CON­VEYED BY THAT CER­TAIN DEED FROM HEN­RY C. CO­LE­MAN TO FRANK GROVES DATES SEP­TEM­BER 4, 1968, AS WILL BE FOUND RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 112, PAGE 366, DODGE COUN­TY RECORDS.
AD­DRESS: 11 CYNTHIA STREET MI­LAN, GA 31060 MAP/PAR­CEL #042C-007
The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of, among oth­er pos­si­ble ev­ents of de­fault, fai­lure to pay the in­debt­ed­ness as and when due and in the man­ner pro­vid­ed in the Note and Se­cur­i­ty Deed. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, this sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fees hav­ing been given).
STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION serv­ic­es the above ref­er­enced loan on be­half of the cur­rent own­er of the loan. STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION can be con­tact­ed at 404-679-4908 or by writ­ing to P.O. Box 133079 Atlan­ta, GA 30333, to dis­cuss pos­si­ble al­ter­na­tives to fore­clo­sure. The ent­i­ty that has full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all terms of the mort­gage with the debtor is: STATE HOME MORT­GAGE COR­PO­RA­TION. Please un­der­stand that the se­cured credi­tor is not re­quired by law to ne­go­tiate, amend, or mod­i­fy the terms of the mort­gage in­stru­ment.
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is DA­VID BROC GID­DENS or a ten­ant or ten­ants and said prop­er­ty is more com­mon­ly known as 11 CYNTHIA STREET, MI­LAN, GA 31060.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U.S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
RCO LE­GAL, P.S.
1587 North­east Ex­press­way
Atlan­ta, GA 30329
770-234-9181
www.rco­le­gal.com
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On Monday, May 25 at 11:00 a.m., the annual Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the Dodge County Court House. This ceremony is held to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country. Memorial Day is set aside to remember fallen soldiers who gave their all for our freedom and the freedom of other countries.

The guest speaker for the occasion will be Major General James E. Livingston. General Livingston is a native of Telfair County and retired from the U.S. Marine Corps following more that thirty years of service. He was one of two Medal of Honor recipients for actions on May 1 through May 3, 1968, in the Dai Do region of Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam.

The American Legion and Auxiliary hosts this annual event. Also, participating in the ceremony will be the Dodge County JROTC and individuals from the community. Plan now to attend.

The Board of the Georgia Academy for Economic Development announces graduates from the 2015 Region 9 Multi-Day Training Program. Milton Johnson, District 1 Eastman city councilman was one of the graduates. Class participants represented a number of professional and non-professional economic development fields, including elected officials, public servants, business leaders, educators and social service providers from 13 counties in the Heart of Georgia/Altamaha region. The Academy provided each of the graduates an opportunity to gain a unique understanding of the complexities of economic and community development on the local, regional, and state levels.

Created in 1993, the Academy assembles a cross section of economic development professionals and resources to provide this training in all twelve-service delivery regions in Georgia. The Board of Directors of the Academy represents public and private economic development organizations and agencies from across Georgia.

Since its organization, the Academy has provided training for thousands of professional and non-professional economic developers around the state, and since 1998 the Academy has been offered annually.
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